Hi,
I was wondering whether anyone with experience of playing the ukulele tuned to fifths, say CGDA, from a mandolin background could provide guidance on left hand position.
I’ve just got a tenor uke I want to tune to fifths and was trying to proceed to learn it based on YouTube generic uke tutorials. General impression is that the fingers of the left hand should adopt a more guitar like position and be roughly parallel to the frets rather than at an angle as a mandolin player would adopt.
Is that a given or should I be able to proceed with the accepted left hand mandolin technique?
The scale at 17 inches is conceivably slightly longer than the mandola and the nut marginally wider, but should that necessitate a complete change. I would not want to adopt a completely different left hand shape/form if it was not necessary. Has anyone who has gone through anything similar got anything to share? I am wondering whether the fact that I will tune it to fifths means that I can retain mandolin left hand fundamentals?
Regards,
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